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The Magic World.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. [Fantasy stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[x]; 280; [4], advertisements. Illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents clean, shaken within case, dink/scratch to top edge of text block, cloth moderately used. A very good copy which shows..... More
The Bells.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1881. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Square octavo, 24 thick leaves. An unusual presentation in publisher's linen backed grey paper covered boards with silver, gilt and brown pictorial upper; all edges gilt. Upper inner joint starting. Black and white illustrations and text printed on recto side only. Boards a...... More
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. A Tale of Slave Life in America.
London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. [Anti-Slavery Novel] EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 392 [2]. Liberally illustrated with more than 150 engravings, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. In later green half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label on spine, and green cloth over boards..... More
The Illustrated Natural History: Birds.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. FINELY BOUND. Large Octavo, pp.[4], 786 [2]. With frequent in-text steel engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. In contemporary prize binding for Sir Joseph Williamson's Free School, Rochester. Full tan calf, recently re-backed with original gilt-decorated spine pasted over. Large armorial crest stamped to both..... More
Wordsworth's Poems for the Young.
London: Alexander Strahan and Co., 1863. [Children's Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS, with first issue advertisements at rear dated December 1862. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.x; 92 [10]. With 50 illustrations engraved on wood by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Blind..... More
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